February is American Heart Month, and the AHA just reported that nearly half of Americans now have CVD. Listen to our 3-minute podcast with Dr James Matera on hypertension - a top contributor to CVD in the...
Listen to the podcast with James J Matera, DO, FACOI, about ideal blood pressure targets for kidney disease patients in light of the 2017 AHA/ACC hypertension guidelines. Then take this quiz to see what...
Ronald is a 37-year-old overweight man with prediabetes and hypertension. At his last visit, he was advised to begin replacing his go-to between-meal snacks of candy and chips with the healthier...
Larry is a 39-year-old man with borderline hypertension. During a regular physical, you ask Larry how his efforts to cut down on sodium have been going. He tells you that although he has been making an...
John, a 62-year-old man, has been treated with lisinopril and amlodipine to control blood pressure (BP), but has only been able to get his BP down to 160/100 with the combination of the 2 agents.
Technology has impacted the way blood pressure is measured in the clinic. When screening for hypertension, do you think an automated office BP measurement or an auscultatory measurement is the better...
John is a 32-year-old overweight man with elevated cholesterol levels. He regularly eats salty, crunchy snacks and worries about the difficulty in giving them up. At his most recent check-up, he asks if...
